Elazığ CCI Joint Professional Committee Meeting Held

The Joint Professional Committee Meeting of the Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry was held with the participation of Chairman of the Board of Directors İdris Alan, President of the Assembly Sedat Karataş and Committee Members.

It is now time to devote our working hours to our members and to serve them.

My dear fellow Professional Committee Members,

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry İdris Alan said: “We are together again after a long time. I greet you on behalf of myself and my Board of Directors and welcome you. A period of 2 months has passed since our elections; we have left behind an intensely stressful period, and it is now time to devote our working hours to our members and to serve them. Due to my health problems, I had to stay away from you for a while; now, thank God, I am well. We have started work on the projects we plan to carry out in the coming 4-year term. We have promises we have made to our members. We do not have a single day to waste.

Our Professional Committees, which are among the most important bodies of our Chamber, are the bodies that explain our work to our members and convey our members' problems to us. In this respect, a great deal of duty falls upon you. You are the lifeblood of this Chamber. The success of our Chamber is your success. Making regular member visits is among your most important tasks. The only way to achieve our goals and fulfil the promises we have made to our members is to work and put in effort. And this is not solely the job of myself and our Board of Directors; it is the essential duty of our elected Professional Committee members representing 14 different sectors.

My particular request from you is that you regularly attend the Professional Committee meetings we will hold monthly and voice the demands in the field, the wishes of our members, at these meetings. We exist as a whole, and if we act as a whole, we will achieve success.

In the service term covering the years 2022-2026, we have started our work to bring our Projects to life.

•          E-commerce project: This is our work enabling all tradespeople operating in our city, with priority given to members of our Chamber, to sell the products they produce and sell to all of Türkiye via the internet.

•          Foreign trade project: Contrary to what is believed, exporting is not a very difficult business. This is a project that will enable products in our province with export potential to be sold according to demand abroad. It will be carried out jointly in connection with our e-commerce project. Intensive feasibility and development work on both projects has started and is continuing.

•          ETSO Card Project: This is a credit card project offering certain payment facilities and opportunities in the commercial activities that members of our Chamber carry out among themselves.

•          Logistics Hub Project: Our work continues on this project, which we have designed as a major project and will carry out together with Elazığ OSB. Work on our project continues in cooperation with TOBB and other Public Institutions and Organisations.

•          Career Project: It will be a portal bringing workers and employers together, which we have developed and continue to work on in order to produce a solution to the unemployment problem of our province.

•          Web Portal and Mobile Application:  This is work that will make it easier for my Members to receive services from our Chamber faster, more dynamically and without leaving their own workplaces. Our Members will be able to obtain many services they need, such as documents, the registry gazette, tender documents and payment of dues, through our Chamber's Web Portal and Mobile Application, which are being renewed, and even through e-Government.

All these projects that I have described in summary are important steps that we call Digital Transformation and that will carry our Chamber into the future. On the other hand, our preparatory work on the Strategic Plan of our Chamber is also continuing, and it will be shared first with you and all our members as soon as possible. We are making all our plans in such a way that the Member will be at the centre of every step we take and every piece of work. Another important topic of ours is our Chamber's goal of Class A in the Accreditation system. I have no doubt that we will achieve this together with you. As I conclude my remarks, I congratulate you once again and pray to Almighty God that we have a successful term of service.”

Problems of the Sectors Were Discussed.

Following the speech of President İdris Alan, the committee members voiced the problems in their sectors and held consultations on the items.